Jamestown, RI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
140 ft 40 m100 ft 30 m86 ft 26 m52 ft 16 m17 ft 5 m0 ft 0 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Jamestown sits at about 53 ft (16 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
53 ft 16 m
most residents: 24–97 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Narragansett Bay
Highest
140 ft 40 m
on the north side
Average
50 ft 15 m
all land inside town boundaries
Jamestown spans about 140 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 53 ft16 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the north side | 140 ft40 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Narragansett Bay | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Jamestown | 7 ft2 m |
| Airport (OQU) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.3 mi north of the town boundaries | 18 ft5 m |
| Average of all land | 50 ft15 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
9.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States
- Population
- 5,494 2024 est.
- Land area
- 9.4 sq mi + 25.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 581 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.4970° N, 71.3673° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Quonset State (OQU) 18 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 02835
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Kingston130 ft
- South Kingstown110 ft
- Middletown100 ft
- Newport East96 ft
- Melville92 ft
- Wakefield-Peace Dale69 ft
- Jamestown53 ft
- North Kingstown51 ft
- Newport45 ft
- Narragansett Pier43 ft
- Narragansett35 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Rhode Island52nd highest of 63
- Towns in Newport County7th highest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- The Dumplings120 ft
- Windmill Hill, Newport County86 ft
- Freebody Hill73 ft
- Castle Hill55 ft
- Fox Hill, Newport County36 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town boundaries, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census town boundaries (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, −4 ft at 41.4568° N, 71.4007° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted; this coastal land's lowest point is sea level on the coast.
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (FAA airport elevation, NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.